To know more in depth

For those of you who want to learn more in depth, or who want to have some web resources at hand, I have prepared a selection of web resources related to the different units.

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Week 2. Unit 1. A Chinese city: the Qingming shanghe tu

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• The Song Dynasty in China.Life in the Song seen through a 12th-century scroll
  Asia for educators. Columbia University.

• The Qingming scroll
  Digital East Asian Studies. Harvard University

• Urban life
  Washington University

• Along the river during the Qinming festival
  China online Museum presentation of different versions of the scroll

Look at a video

• A Moving masterpiece. The Song dynasty as living art 动感《清明上河图》

• From the Song to the Ming,presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon.
  BBC, Art of China

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• China Heritage Newsletter: International Conference on Qingming Shanghe tu and Song dynasty genre paintings, Beijing, 10-12 october, 2005.
  China Heritage Project. The Australian National University, nº4, December 2005

• Hansen, V., The Mystery of the Qingming Scroll and its subject
  Journal of Sung-Yuan Studies. Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Albany

• Johnson, Ian, Nobel renews debate on Chinese Medicine
  The New York Times, 10-10-2015

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Week 2. Unit 2. Song dynasty

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• The Song Dynasty in China. Life in the Song seen through a 12th-century scroll
  Asia for Educators. Columbia University.

• Painting of a woman and children surrounding a peddler of goods in the countryside, by Li Song (c. 1190–1225), dated 1210 AD
  Li Sung - The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.

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• From the Song to the Ming
  BBC Art of China, presented by Andrew Graham-Dixon, 2.

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• Brief Background Introduction to How Things Were in Eurasia On the Eve of Mongol Invasion & Conquest

• Gracie, C., Wang Anshi: The Reformer beaten by the mandarins
  BBC News, 17-20-2012

• Hansen, Valerie, The Kitan people, the Liao dynasty (916-1125) and their World (link provided by Roxana Zanea)

• Hymes, R.P. and Schirokauer, C. (eds.) (1993) Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China
  University of California Press

• Zurndorfer, H. The Resistant fiber: pre-modern history of cotton in China
  Global Economic History Network

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Week 2. Unit 3. The founding of the Mongol empire: Chinggis Khan

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• The Mongols in World History
  Asia for Educators. Columbia University

• Mongolian Culture

• The Legacy of Genghis Khan. Courtly Art and Culture in Western Asia, 1256-1353
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2003

• Peggy Beck Haines, Mongols Resources

Listen to a podcast

• Genghis Khan on In Our Time at the BBC
  Melvyn Bragg discusses Genghis Khan with Peter Jackson, Professor of Medieval History at Keele University; Naomi Standen, Lecturer in Chinese History at Newcastle University;George Lane, Lecturer in History at the School of Oriental and African Studies

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• Callaway, E., Genghis Khan’s genetic legacy has competition (link provided by Michel Hardman)
  Nature. International weekly Journal of Science, 23-01-2015

• Pouisuo, P. 10 Amazing facts about the Mongols (link provided by Marina Nieto)

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• The travels of Chang Chun, 1219-1224. Translated by E. Bretschneider (1888)

• The secret history of the Mongols

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Week 2. Unit 4. The first global world

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• The Mongol Khâns

• Hans Van Roon, Mongols China and the Silk Road. Archeology and History of the Silk Road (link provided by Birgitte Crawfurd and Lucy Costa)

Listen to a podcast

• The Black death
  Melvyn Bragg discusses Black death with With Miri Rubin, Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London; Samuel Cohn, Professor of Medieval History at the University of Glasgow; Paul Binski, Professor of the History of Medieval Art at Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.
  BBC Radio 4 In Our Time

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• The Mongol Empire: Kublai Khan
  History Channel, BBC

• Medieval Apocalypse. The Black Death
  National Geographic History channel HD Documentary

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• Gracie, C., Kublai Khan: China’s favourite barbarian
  BBC News, 9-10-2012

• Rossabi, M. All the Khan’s Horses
  Asia for educators, Columbia University.

• Sczepanski, Kallie, Black Death in Asia. Bubonic Plague
  About Education

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Week 2. Unit 5. The first european travellers

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• Prester John (link provided by Patricia Nunes)
  Melvyn Bragg discuss Prester John with Marianne O’Doherty, Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton; Martin Palmer, Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education, and Culture, and Amanda Power, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield.
  BBC Radio 4 In Our Time

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• Rachewiltz, Igor de, Prester John and the European Discovery of East Asia (link provided by Hamish Morrison)
  East Asian History, number 11, june 1996, pp. 59-75.

• Rogocínska, Monica, Two worlds collide. Searching for traces of Benedict the Pole (link provided bi Birgitte Crawfurd)

• Waugh, Daniel D., Travel and travelers in Medieval Eurasia (link provided by Birgitte Crawfurd)
  World History Connected, Volume 10, Number 1, February 2013

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• Pegolotti’s, Merchant Handbook

• Ruy de Clavijo, Clavijo’s embassy to Tamerlane

• Contemporaries of Marco Polo consisting of the travel records to the eastern parts of the world of William of Rubruck (1253-1255); the journey of John of Pian de Carpini (1245-1247); the journal of Friar Odoric (1318-1330) & the oriental travels of Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela (1160-1173) (1928)

• Rabban Bar Sauma, The history of the life of Rabban Sawma, 1278-1313

• John of Montecorvino, Report from China (1305)

• The journey of William of Rubruck to the eastern parts of the world, 1253-55

• Cathay and the way thither: fray Odoric of Pordenone’s text and appendixes

eBooks: Kindle Edition
This bibliography only includes e-Books. The link for each book enables you to “Look inside” the Contents and a sample of pages

• EBREY, Patricia B., Women and the Family in Chinese History

• GERNET, Jacques, La vie quotidienne en Chine: A la veille de l’invasion mongole (1250-1276). There is an English translation “Daily life in China”, but not in e-Book. You can read much of this book on-line here

• GOLDEN, Peter B., Central Asia in World History

• MORGAN, David, The Mongols

• PHILLIPS, Kim M., Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510

• WEATHERFORD, Jack, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World

• WINCHESTER, Simon, Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China